Building Qt 5.8 from Source with MSYS2 / MinGW 64 - 'libs.icu' failed
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Running configure failed with following error message:
ERROR: Feature 'icu' was enabled, but the pre-condition 'libs.icu' failed.
I checked config.log for details, the relevant part is:
looking for library icu Trying source 0 (type inline) of library icu ... => source failed condition 'config.win32 && !features.shared'. Trying source 1 (type inline) of library icu ... + cd C:\msys64\home\asp\qt-build\qtbase\config.tests\unix\icu && C:\msys64\home\asp\qt-build\qtbase\bin\qmake.exe "CONFIG -= qt debug_and_release app_bundle lib_bundle" "CONFIG += shared console" "LIBS += -licuin -licuuc -licudt" C:/msys64/home/asp/qt5/qtbase/config.tests/unix/icu + cd C:\msys64\home\asp\qt-build\qtbase\config.tests\unix\icu && set MAKEFLAGS=& C:/msys64/usr/bin/make > g++ -c -pipe -fno-keep-inline-dllexport -g -frtti -Wall -Wextra -fexceptions -mthreads -DUNICODE -IC:/msys64/home/asp/qt5/qtbase/config.tests/unix/icu -I. -IC:/msys64/home/asp/qt5/qtbase/mkspecs/win32-g++ -o icu.o C:/msys64/home/asp/qt5/qtbase/config.tests/unix/icu/icu.cpp > C:/msys64/home/asp/qt5/qtbase/config.tests/unix/icu/icu.cpp:40:28: fatal error: unicode/utypes.h: No such file or directory > #include <unicode/utypes.h> > ^ > compilation terminated. > make: *** [Makefile:155: icu.o] Fehler 1 => source failed verification. Trying source 2 (type inline) of library icu ... => source failed condition '!config.win32'. test config.corelib.libraries.icu FAILEDI build ICU 57.1 (58.1 & 58.2 don't compile) from source and installed it in /usr/local/icu:
wget http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/57.1/icu4c-57_1-src.zip unzip icu4c-57_1-src.zip cd icu/source mkdir build cd build ../runConfigureICU MinGW prefix=/usr/local/icu make && make installI downloaded the Qt 5.8 source code:
git clone https://code.qt.io/qt/qt5.git cd qt5 perl init-repository git checkout 5.8The ICU libraries are copied into Qt source tree:
cp /usr/local/icu/lib/icu*57.dll ~/qt5/qtbase/binI set some environment variables in the MSYS2 64 Bit shell:
cd ~/qt5 export INCLUDE=/usr/local/icu/include:/usr/local/openssl/include export LIB=/usr/local/icu/lib:/usr/local/openssl/lib export QMAKESPEC= export QTDIR= export MAKE_COMMAND= windows2unix() { local pathPcs=() split pathTmp IFS=\;; read -ra split <<< "$*"; for pathTmp in "${split[@],}"; do pathPcs+=( "/${pathTmp//+([:\\])//}" ); done; echo "${pathPcs[*]}"; }; systemrootP=$(windows2unix "$SYSTEMROOT"); export PATH="$PWD/qtbase/bin:$PWD/gnuwin32/bin:/c/msys64/mingw64/bin:/c/msys64/usr/bin:/c/msys64/usr/local/icu/lib"I checked the Option-A Prerequisites:
perl -v This is perl 5, version 22, subversion 1 (v5.22.1) built for x86_64-msys-thread-multi python --version Python 2.7.13 ruby -v ruby 2.3.0p0 (2015-12-25 revision 53290) [x86_64-msys] Microsoft DirectX SDK - not needed MinGW-builds GCC 4.8.2 64-bit (threads-posix/seh) - I used MinGW64 toolchain pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-toolchain gcc -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=C:\msys64\mingw64\bin\gcc.exe COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.3.0/lto-wrapper.exe Target: x86_64-w64-mingw32 Configured with: ../gcc-6.3.0/configure --prefix=/mingw64 --with-local-prefix=/mingw64/local --build=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --target=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --with-native-system-header-dir=/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include --libexecdir=/mingw64/lib --enable-bootstrap --with-arch=x86-64 --with-tune=generic --enable-languages=c,lto,c++,objc,obj-c++,fortran,ada --enable-shared --enable-static --enable-libatomic --enable-threads=posix --enable-graphite --enable-fully-dynamic-string --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --disable-libstdcxx-pch --disable-libstdcxx-debug --disable-isl-version-check --enable-lto --enable-libgomp --disable-multilib --enable-checking=release --disable-rpath --disable-win32-registry --disable-nls --disable-werror --disable-symvers --with-libiconv --with-system-zlib --with-gmp=/mingw64 --with-mpfr=/mingw64 --with-mpc=/mingw64 --with-isl=/mingw64 --with-pkgversion='Rev1, Built by MSYS2 project' --with-bugurl=https://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2 --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld Thread model: posix gcc version 6.3.0 (Rev1, Built by MSYS2 project) uname -a MINGW64_NT-6.1 WS011685 2.6.1(0.305/5/3) 2017-01-25 00:01 x86_64 Msys git --version git version 2.11.0Now everything needed should be available (I compiled and installed OpenSSL), so I created a build directory:
mkdir qt-build cd qt-buildI dropped the option '-c++11', because of
ERROR: Unknown command line option '-c++11'.Then I started to configure Qt and got another error:
ERROR: Feature 'icu' was enabled, but the pre-condition 'libs.icu' failed.In config.log I found
> dlopen.cpp:34:19: fatal error: dlfcn.h: No such file or directory > #include <dlfcn.h> > ^ > compilation terminated. > make: *** [Makefile:155: dlopen.o] Fehler 1 test config.corelib.tests.dlopen FAILEDSo I installed dlfcn:
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-dlfcn pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-dlfcnAnd now I've got the error described at top, when I started configure:
../qt5/configure -prefix /opt/qt -debug-and-release -opensource -confirm-license -platform win32-g++ -developer-build -icu -I /C/msys64/usr/local/icu/include -opengl desktop -openssl -plugin-sql-odbc -nomake examples -nomake testsWhy is the header file missing?
C:/msys64/home/asp/qt5/qtbase/config.tests/unix/icu/icu.cpp:40:28: fatal error: unicode/utypes.h: No such file or directoryI checked, if it's there:
ls /usr/local/icu/include/unicode/utypes.h /usr/local/icu/include/unicode/utypes.hDoes anybody know how to set the INCLUDE path correct?
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Finally I solved this problem!
I removed the complete qt5 folder and started from the beginning. Then I got the following error:
looking for library icu Trying source 0 (type inline) of library icu ... => source failed condition 'config.win32 && !features.shared'. Trying source 1 (type inline) of library icu ... + cd C:\msys64\home\asp\qt-build\qtbase\config.tests\unix\icu && C:\msys64\home\asp\qt-build\qtbase\bin\qmake.exe "CONFIG -= qt debug_and_release app_bundle lib_bundle" "CONFIG += shared console" "INCLUDEPATH += C:/msys64/usr/local/icu/include" "LIBS += -licuin -licuuc -licudt" C:/msys64/home/asp/qt5/qtbase/config.tests/unix/icu + cd C:\msys64\home\asp\qt-build\qtbase\config.tests\unix\icu && set MAKEFLAGS=& C:/msys64/usr/bin/make clean && set MAKEFLAGS=& C:/msys64/usr/bin/make > rm -f icu.o > g++ -c -pipe -fno-keep-inline-dllexport -g -Wall -Wextra -fexceptions -mthreads -DUNICODE -IC:/msys64/home/asp/qt5/qtbase/config.tests/unix/icu -I. -IC:/msys64/usr/local/icu/include -IC:/msys64/home/asp/qt5/qtbase/mkspecs/win32-g++ -o icu.o C:/msys64/home/asp/qt5/qtbase/config.tests/unix/icu/icu.cpp > g++ -Wl,-subsystem,console -mthreads -o icu.exe icu.o -licuin -licuuc -licudt > C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.3.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -licuin > C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.3.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -licuuc > C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/6.3.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -licudt > collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status > make: *** [Makefile:62: icu.exe] Fehler 1 => source failed verification. Trying source 2 (type inline) of library icu ... => source failed condition '!config.win32'. test config.corelib.libraries.icu FAILEDSo the headers could be found this time! But now the ICU lib couldn't be linked. So I added '-L /C/msys64/usr/local/icu/lib' and tried again:
../qt5/configure -prefix /opt/qt -debug-and-release -opensource -confirm-license -platform win32-g++ -developer-build -icu -I /C/msys64/usr/local/icu/include -L /C/msys64/usr/local/icu/lib -opengl desktop -openssl -plugin-sql-odbc -nomake examples -nomake tests Qt is now configured for building. Just run 'make'. Once everything is built, you must run 'make install'. Qt will be installed into 'C:\msys64\opt\qt'That's it, this issue is done!